Adam Ryland
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Adam Ryland is a British programmer who is most famous for creating the Extreme Warfare series of games.
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[edit] Background
Born July 23, 1980 and currently residing in Birmingham, England, Ryland graduated from Aston University in 2001 with a degree in computer science. After graduating, Ryland worked for Wrox Press Ltd. for 2 years as the Chief Editor and Project Manager of Wrox's .NET web sites, C#Today and VBToday, and also contributed as an editor to the ASPToday web site and several of Wrox's successful .NET Handbook titles.
[edit] Extreme Warfare
Perhaps Adam's most famous accomplishment is the series of games known as Extreme Warfare. These were a series of professional wrestling management games. They were developed as freeware from 1995 until 2003. The last game in the freeware series was Extreme Warfare Revenge. Adam stopped producing the series as the game was getting too complex to work on in his free time and quoted "by the end, it simply became impossible to spend that much time writing them as well as doing a regular 9-5 job".
He then created Total Extreme Warfare 2004 (TEW 2004). Originally titled Total Extreme Warfare 2004, the game was renamed to Total Extreme Wrestling to distance itself from its freeware predecessor. The first TEW game was released on March 31, 2004 under .400 Software Studios. Wrestling Spirit: Rookie to Legend was Ryland's second professional title released on November 30, 2004 under Grey Dog Software. Adam's third professional title, Total Extreme Wrestling 2005 (TEW 2005) was released on October 6, 2005. The fourth was Wrestling Spirit 2, released on June 29, 2006
Adam Ryland's work has the distinction of having a very good following, with a circle of third-party workers who create data for the game. Of those, RaveX, whose members (Jeff Cartwright & Phil Parent) were taken on by Ryland to work on his projects, DOTT ("Death Of The Territories", a scenario based on 1980's wrestling, members Eric Baker and Rick Arnold also now a part of Adam Ryland's team, which was recently voted the best mod for TEW), End of the Golden Era (1993 based mod by TCP Productions) & T-Zone and Fall of the One Ring Circus (Popular Modern Era updates) are to be noted, and many others also have released data for the game.
[edit] Future projects
Adam is currently developing Total Extreme Wrestling 2007, slated for a Christmas 06 release. The game uses the same engine as TEW 2005.
